@redgreen243 - I also would not worry even a little bit about law school of business school. If you get good grades in mechanical engineering and work for a couple of years afterward, you should have no trouble getting into a top law or business school. I got my MBA from Michigan and the program was full of engineers from the Big 3 automakers. Law schools also like engineers. If you got a good enough SAT or ACT score to get into Rice and Columbia, you will also do will on the GRE or LSAT, as long as you take it seriously, and study hard before you take the exams.My son is an Aerospace Engineering junior/National Merit scholar at Texas A&M. He spent about two hours looking at the GRE prep book and thought he’d take it once for practice. He got 165 Quantitative/169 Verbal/6 Writing. He now doesn’t plan on taking it again.
My son briefly considered patent law, but now is all in for a PhD in AE.